Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.