L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.