No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.

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

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

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