There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.