The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.