The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.