Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.