The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
Taste may change, but inclination never.