Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defense which is ever prudent and justifiable.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.