Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second.

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.