When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.