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

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.