Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.