Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.