In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.