Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

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