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.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.