It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.
All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.
Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
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.