Fortune and humor govern the world.

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.