Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.