No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.