Truth Does Not Do As Much Good

In Great Affairs We Ought To Apply Ourselves Less To Creating Chances Than To Profiting From Those That Offer.

The Truest Mark Of Being Born With Great Qualities Is To Be Born Without Envy.

The Smallest Fault Of Women Who Give Themselves Up To Love Is To Love.

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.

Men More Easily Renounce Their Interests Than Their Tastes.