A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?