We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

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

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.

Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.