Our Own Distrust Gives A Fair Pretence

Jealousy Lives Upon Doubts. It Becomes Madness Or Ceases Entirely As Soon As We Pass From Doubt To Certainty.

Affected Simplicity Is An Elegant Imposture.

What We Take For Virtue Is Often Nothing But An Assemblage Of Different Actions, And Of Different Interests, That Fortune Or Our Industry Knows How To Arrange.

Hypocrisy Is An Homage That Vice Renders To Virtue.

One Is Never Fortunate Or As Unfortunate As One Imagines.