In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

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

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.