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.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

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

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Sudden love is latest cured.