There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.