Boredom: the desire for desires.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.

We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.