The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.