Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.
As love increases, prudence diminishes.
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.