Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully