Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.