It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...
You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
I want nothing from love, in short, but love.