Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.
Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.