The loss of friends is a tax on age!
Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure.
It is not enough to be wise, one must be engaging.
Gossip, like ennui, is born of idleness.
Never tell a loved one of an infidelity: you would be badly rewarded for your troubles. Although one dislikes being deceived, one likes even less to be undeceived.
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love, than to make war.