You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.