However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.