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

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

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

The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.