One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.