As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.

Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.

The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.

The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.