The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.