Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
From Michel de Montaigne
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
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