Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

We always like those who admire us.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.