Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.