As a rule, only the poor are generous.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.
Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.
What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.