A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.

To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.