The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!

We distrust our heart too much, and our head not enough.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.