If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.