The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

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

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.