Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.