All The Passions Are Nothing Else Than

High Fortune Makes Both Our Virtues And Vices Stand Out As Objects That Are Brought Clearly To View By The Light.

Love Can No More Continue Without A Constant Motion Than Fire Can; And When Once You Take Hope And Fear Away, You Take From It Its Very Life And Being.

Gravity Is A Mysterious Carriage Of The Body Invented To Cover The Defects Of The Mind.

Some Reproaches Praise; Some Praises Reproach.

We Frequently Do Good In Order To Enable Us To Do Evil Later With Impunity Exemption Of Punishment.