There are several remedies which will cure love, but there are no infallible ones.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.