What Keeps Us From Abandoning Ourselves Entirely

If You Cannot Find Peace In Yourself, It Is Useless To Look For It Elsewhere.

It Is Easier To Rule Others Than To Keep From Being Ruled Oneself.

The Shame That Arises From Praise Which We Do Not Deserve Often Makes Us Do Things We Should Otherwise Never Have Attempted.

There Is Merit Without Rank, But There Is No Rank Without Some Merit.

The Reason Why Lovers And Their Mistresses Never Tire Of Being Together Is That They Are Always Talking Of Themselves. [fr., Ce Qui Fait Que Amants Et Les Maitresses Ne S'ennuient Point D'etre Ensemble; C'est Qu'ils Parlent Toujours D'eux Memes.]