It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.

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.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

It is necessary, in order to know things well, to know the particulars of them; and these, being infinite, make our knowledge eversuperficial and imperfect.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.