Taste may change, but inclination never.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.