The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.