The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
One honor won is a surety for more.
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.
Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.
The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.