Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.