We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.