It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.