Taste may change, but inclination never.

Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

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.