People Would Not Long Remain

It Appears That Nature Has Hid At The Bottom Of Our Hearts Talents And Abilities Unknown To Us. It Is Only The Passions That Have The Power Of Bringing Them To Light, And Sometimes Give Us Views More True And More Perfect Than Art Could Possibly Do.

A Man Is Ridiculous Less Through The Characteristics He Has Than Through Those He Affects To Have.

Self-love Is The Greatest Of All Flatterers.

We Are Sometimes As Different From Ourselves As We Are From Others.

Some Good Qualities Are Like The Senses: Those Who Are Entirely Deprived Of Them Can Have No Notion Of Them.