The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.