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

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.