For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.