The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.

The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.

A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?