Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.