Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Astrology reveals the will of the gods.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.

Great power which incites great envy hurls some men to destruction they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Today theres more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

Who watches the watchmen?

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

Luxury destroys more efficiently than war.

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue ..

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

I was so happy when they cast me in Chocolat, because it's one of my vices.