The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.