We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

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

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.