Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

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

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.

Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.