The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.