Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.