A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

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

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.