The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

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.

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.