There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.