Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

None but the contemptible are apprehensive of contempt.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.