Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

It's not enough to be a good person. You also have to show it.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Vivacity is the health of the spirit.