The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.