How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.
The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.