No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment
Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.
To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.