A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

A man often believes himself leader when he is led; as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.