No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.