The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

Women read each other at a single glance.

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.

To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.