To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

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

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

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.

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.