Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.