It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

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

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.