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

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself