It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.