Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.
It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.
Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.