We give nothing so freely as advice.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.