Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

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