We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.