We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.