Weak people cannot be sincere.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.