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

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.