What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the honor of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

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

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.