Youth Changes Its Tastes By The Warmth

One Cannot Answer For His Courage When He Has Never Been In Danger.

Kings Do With Men As With Pieces Of Money; They Give Them What Value They Please, And We Are Obliged To Receive Them At Their Current And Not At Their Real Value.

Novelty Is To Love Like Bloom To Fruit; It Gives A Luster Which Is Easily Effaced, But Never Returns.

Self-love, As It Happens To Be Well Or Ill Conducted, Constitutes Virtue And Vice.

When We Disclaim Praise, It Is Only Showing Our Desire To Be Praised A Second Time.