Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

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

It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.