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

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.