If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
Few maxims are true in every respect.
Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.
The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.
Constancy is the chimera of love.