It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.