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

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.

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.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.