The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

The passions often engender their contraries.