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

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.