A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

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