The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

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

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

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