One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.