The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.