So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Conquer but never triumph.
All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.
One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.
The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?