If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.