It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

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

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.

Generosity is the vanity of giving.