The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

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