There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

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

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.

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