Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.