We forgive just so long as we love.
We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.
No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.
Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.