Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

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.

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.