Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.