When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

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Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

No fools so wearisome as those who have some wit.

It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.