We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

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