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.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.