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

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.