There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

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

Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

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

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.