Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
I recover my property wherever I find it.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.