What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.

Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

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

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.