To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

One may outwit another, but not all the others.

We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.