Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

High birth is a gift of fortune which should never challenge esteem towards those who receive it, since it costs them neither study nor labor.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.