The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

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

The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.