Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.