Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.