There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.