We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.