We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

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

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.