I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.