There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

One honor won is a surety for more.

It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.

Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.

The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever; we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.