Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

The only thing constant in life is change

The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.