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

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.