Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.

Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.