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

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.