Out of difficulties grow miracles.

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

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