He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.