Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.