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

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

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.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

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

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

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