The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

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

The finest pleasure is kindness to others.

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

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

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.