Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.