Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

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

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.

When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.