Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.