Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.