In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.