When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.

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

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

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

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.