We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.