Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.