Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.