We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

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

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.