The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

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