Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.