Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.