There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.

Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.