All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.
False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.