Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.