Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.
It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.