Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.