"A completely truthful woman who does not practice dissimulation is perhaps an impossibility."

"The value of a man is not measured by the number of truths he has accumulated, but by the extent to which he has freed himself from error."

"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."

"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."

"The world is a spectacle for the gods."