How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.