There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance.
Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.
It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.
Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time – unless she happens to take a second.
On why I don’t trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition – which despises small interests to gain great ones.
When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
You are never so easily fooled as when trying to fool someone else.
The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character...
It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.