Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

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

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.