Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent.

Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.