Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one which arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Lovers never get tired of each other, because they are always talking about themselves.

Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.

Fortune and humour govern the world.

It is very much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy those which follow it.

Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a position to be beneficial.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.