Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current and not at their real value.

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.