It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

Hatred is stronger than friendship.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.