There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

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.

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.