In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.