Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

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.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.