We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.