Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.