We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

We pardon as long as we love.