We are easily duped by those we love.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!