It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.