When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence.

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

A good memory is needed after one has lied.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.