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

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.