The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.