Madeleine de Puisieux

"Jealousy is the homage that inferiority pays to merit."

"In retailing slander, we name the originator, in order to enjoy a pleasure without danger."

"One seeks new friends only when too well known by old ones."

"Men are so unjust that to be unhappy is to be wrong."

"A great name without merit is like an epitaph on a coffin."

"Would you know how to give? Put yourself in the place of him who receives."