To love is to choose.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Great souls are harmonious.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

Pleasure once tasted satisfies less than the desire experienced for its torments.

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