Love and friendship exclude each other.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings.