Taste may change, but inclination never.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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.
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
