Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.