To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.