The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

To forget someone means to think of him.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.