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

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.