Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.