We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

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.