"There is in the human heart a perpetual generation of passions; so that the destruction of one is almost always the birth of another."
"We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our fears."
"No one is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines."
"Fortune turns every thing to the advantage of those whom she favours."
"There is but one true love; but there are a thousand copies."
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
"A fool has not stuff enough in him to be virtuous."
"Our minds are more indolent than our bodies."
"Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it."