There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

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