A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.