Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.
Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.
Love knows nothing of modesty.
Today nobility is gone: there is only a peerage.
Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.