We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.