All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.