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

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

We forgive just so long as we love.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself