In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.