Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

If my intentions were not to be read in my eyes and voice, I should not have survived so long without quarrels and without harm, seeing the indiscreet freedom with which I say, right or wrong, whatever comes into my head.

It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.