Fortune Never Appears So Blind As To

A Man's Happiness Or Unhappiness Depends As Much On His Temperament As On His Destiny.

What Renders Other People's Vanity Insufferable Is That It Wounds Our Own.

There Are Some People Who Would Never Have Fallen In Love If They Had Not Heard There Was Such A Thing.

The Passions Are The Only Orators That Always Persuade: They Are, As It Were, A Natural Art, The Rules Of Which Are Infallible; And The Simplest Man With Passion Is More Persuasive Than The Most Eloquent Without It.

There Are Fine Things That Are More Brilliant When They Are Unfinished Than When Finished Too Much.