For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.