The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.