What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.