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| A good memory is needed once we have lied. | 1 |
| A liar is always lavish of oaths. | 2 |
| All great virtues become great men. | 3 |
| Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend. | 4 |
| Brave men are brave from the very first. | 5 |
| Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. | 6 |
| Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying. | 7 |
| Every moment of life is a step towards death. | 8 |
| Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants. | 9 |
| Happiness seems made to be shared. | 10 |
| He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it. | 11 |
| He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, goes on increasing. | 12 |
| He who does not fear death cares naught for threats. | 13 |
| He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty. | 14 |
| Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved. | 15 |
| I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years. | 16 |
| It is a law of the gods which is never broken, to sell somewhat dearly the great benefits which they confer on us. | 17 |
| It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame. | 18 |
| Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives. | 19 |
| Patience and time conquer all things. | 20 |
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| The man who pardons easily courts injury. | 21 |
| The secret of giving affectionately is great and rare; it requires address to do it well; otherwise we lose instead of deriving benefit from it. This man gives lavishly in a way that obliges no one; the manner of giving is worth more than the gift. Another loses intentionally at a game, thus disguising his present; another forgets a jewel, which would have been refused as a gift. A generous booby seems to be giving alms to his mistress when he is making a present. | 22 |
| The wrinkles on his forehead are the marks which his mighty deeds have engraved there, and still indicate what he was in former days. | 23 |
| There are secret ties, there are sympathies, by the sweet relationship of which souls that are well matched attach themselves to each other, and are affected by I know not what, which cannot be explained. | 24 |
| These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls! | 25 |
| To myself alone do I owe my fame. | 26 |
| We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. | 27 |
| When a woman has the gift of silence she possesses a quality above the vulgar. It is a gift of Heaven seldom bestowed; without a little miracle it cannot be accomplished; and Nature suffers violence when Heaven puts a woman in the humor of observing silence. | 28 |
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