"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."

"We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones."

"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."

"The mind is always the patsy of the heart."

"Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment."

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."

"Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead."

"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do."

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

"We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation."

"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

"We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions."

"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."

"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."

"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."

"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."

"People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune."

"The heart is forever making the head its fool."

"Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being."

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."