If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.