The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.