The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

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.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.

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 one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.