There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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?
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.
The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.