Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.