Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.