We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

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.

Rarely do they appear great before their valets.

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.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.