Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

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