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

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.

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

The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.