Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

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

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.

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.