“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude ”

“When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman”

“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object”

“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.””

“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile”

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence”