Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.