We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

One should treat one's fate as one does one's health; enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.