We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.

What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.