Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

All women seem by nature to be coquettes.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.