To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself

It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.