Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.

When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.