To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

We forgive just so long as we love.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.