The people will save their government if the government itself will allow them.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus...
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a...
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures they are safe...
You can find women who have never had an affair but it is hard to find a...
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
One can find women who have never had one love affair but it is rare indeed...
We give advice but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of...
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with yet...
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and...
When we disclaim praise it is only showing our desire to be praised a second...
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
If we resist our passions it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say...
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness who has it not in his power...
If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward...
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our...
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues...
Flattery is a kind of bad money to which our vanity gives us currency.
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application...
It is easier to know men in general than men in particular.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their...
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they...
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be...
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we...
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men and makes the biggest idiots clever.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us than them that love us...
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we...
We always love those who admire us but we do not always love those whom we...
