Taste may change, but inclination never.

All women seem by nature to be coquettes.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.