The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.