It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.