No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.