We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

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

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

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.