The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.

It is far easier to know men than to know man.

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.