A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.
Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.
In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.