The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

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