Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

As love increases, prudence diminishes.

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.