Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.