All women seem by nature to be coquettes.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.