We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

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.

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

Men make the best friends.