Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.