There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.