Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .