To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.

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

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.