Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.