True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.