Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

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

Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.