We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.