Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

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.

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

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

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.