We come too late to say anything which has not been said already. - Jean de La Bruyère

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.

No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which docs not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.

A man in health questions whether there is a God, and he also doubts whether it be a sin to have intercourse with a woman, who is at liberty to refuse; but when he falls ill, or when his mistress is with child, she is discarded, and he believes in God.