There are some who speak one moment before they think

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

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

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.