Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.