Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.