One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

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