Slander is the balm of malignity.
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.