The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

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.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.