In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

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

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.