We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

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.

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.