The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

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

The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.