Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

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

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?