The Most Subtle Of Our Acts Is

L'absence Diminue Les Mediocres Passions, Et Augmente Les Grandes,comme Le Vent Eteint Les Bougies, Et Allume Le Feu. Absence Diminishes Commonplace Passions, And Increases Great Ones, As Wind Extinguishes Candles And Kindles Fire.

What Keeps Us From Abandoning Ourselves Entirely To One Vice, Often, Is The Fact That We Have Several.

If Vanity Does Not Entirely Overthrow The Virtues, At Least It Makes Them All Totter.

The Height Of Cleverness Is To Be Able To Conceal It.

We Only Confess Our Little Faults To Persuade People That We Have No Big Ones.