Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

He is safe who admits no one to his confidence.

To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.

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.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.