Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.
It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.
Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.
For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.
A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man.
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.