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

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.