We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.