When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

To forget someone means to think of him.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.

Life at court does not satisfy a man, but it keeps him from being satisfied with anything else.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.