The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.