You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Taste may change, but inclination never.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourse...
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.