Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.