One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.