We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
With monuments as with men, position means everything.
When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.
Temperament is the thermometer of character.