In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.
The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.
It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.