It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.