Ah, there are no longer any children!
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.