That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Inconstancy is the child of satiety.
We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.
After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.
The passions do not die out; they burn out.
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.