The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.