The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.
There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.
There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.