It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.