As love increases, prudence diminishes.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.
Hope and fear are inseparable.
Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.