It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

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

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.