Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.