One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.