A Prince Wants Only The Pleasure Of

A Coxcomb Is The Blockhead's Man Of Merit.

It Is A Fool's Privilege To Laugh At An Intelligent Man.

Eloquence Is To The Sublime What The Whole Is To The Part.

False Greatness Is Unsociable And Remote: Conscious Of Its Own Frailty, It Hides, Or At Least Averts Its Face, And Reveals Itself Only Enough To Create An Illusion And Not Be Recognized As The Meanness That It Really Is. True Greatness Is Free, Kind, Familiar And Popular; It Lets Itself Be Touched And Handled, It Loses Nothing By Being Seen At Close Quarters; The Better One Knows It, The More One Admires It.

Two Persons Cannot Long Be Friends If They Cannot Forgive Each Other's Little Failings.