Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

Hope is the last thing that dies in man.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.