Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

The passions often engender their contraries.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.