le to console him or
to soothe his grief

Marriage without enjoyment is a thorn
without roses

Marriage state, for which I felt I had
no vocation

Married a rich wife, he repented of
having married at all

Mere beauty does not go for much

Most trifling services are assessed at
the highest rates

My spirit and my desires are as young
as ever

My time was too short to write so
little

Mystical insinuations

Negligent attire

Never to pass an opinion on any subject

Never wearied himself with too much
thinking

Nobody read his books, but everybody
agreed he was learned

'Non' is equal to giving the lie

Now I am too old to begin curing myself

Obscenity disgusts, and never gives
pleasure

Oh! wonderful power of self-delusion

One never knows enough

Owed all its merits to antithesis and
paradox

Pardonable weakness, most of us prefer
"mine" to "thine"

Passing infidelity, but not inconstancy

Passion and prejudice cannot reason

People did not want to know things as
they truly were

People want to know everything, and
they invent

Pigmies mimicking a giant

Pity to sell cheaply what would have to
be replaced dearly

Pleasures are realities, though all too
fleeting

Pope, whom no Roman can believe to be
infallible

Post-masters

Prejudices which had the sanction of
the law

Pride is the daughter of folly

Privately indulged in every luxury that
he forbade to others

Privilege of a nursing mother

Promising everlasting constancy

Proud nation, at once so great and so
little

Quacks

Rather be your debtor than for you to
be mine

Read when I am gone

Reading innumerable follies one finds
written in such places

Repentance for a good deed

Reproached by his wife for the money he
had expended

Rid of our vices more easily than of
our follies

Rome the holy, which thus strives to
make all men pederasts

Rumour is only good to amuse fools

Sad symptom of misery which is called a
yawn

Sadness is a disease which gives the
death-blow to affection

Scold and then forgive

Scrupulously careful not to cheat you
in small things

Seldom praised and never blamed

Selfishness, then, the universal motor
of our actions?

Shewed his contempt by saying nothing

Sin concealed is half pardoned

Sleep--the very likeness of
non-existence

Snatching from poor mortal man the
delusions

Soften the hardships of the slow but
certain passage to the g