The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

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

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.