Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Jealousy is not love, but self-love.