How many fools does it take to make up a public?
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.
Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.
In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally