It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.

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

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.