No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.

His head was turned by too great success.

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.