Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with theperson they love.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.