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

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.