As love increases, prudence diminishes.

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.

It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.