History never embraces more than a small part of reality

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.