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.

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.

Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.

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.

Change, change,--we all covet change.

What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.