The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.