Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

We give nothing so freely as advice.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.