We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.