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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Usually we praise only to be praised.
We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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