Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.

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

In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

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