If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.
It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
There are those to whom one must advise madness.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.