Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar..

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker..

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored..

The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading..

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there….

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen..

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man ….

The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati ….

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone..

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time..

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone..

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them..

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man ….

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other..

A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous..

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death..

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future..

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father..

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable..

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves..