Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.