Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.
Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.