To Know How To Hide One's Ability

All The Passions Make Us Commit Faults; Love Makes Us Commit The Most Ridiculous Ones.

When We Enlarge Upon The Affection Our Friends Have For Us, This Is Very Often Not So Much Out Of A Sense Of Gratitude As From A Desire To Persuade People Of Our Own Great Worth, That Can Deserve So Much Kindness.

Moral Severity In Women Is Only A Dress Or Paint Which They Use To Set Off Their Beauty.

The Man Whom No One Pleases Is Much More Unhappy Than The Man Who Pleases No One.

Philosophy Easily Triumphs Over Past And Future Ills; But Present Ills Triumph Over Philosophy.