Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.