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We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.

People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.

Our minds are lazier than our bodies.

All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire.

One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one thinks.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.

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

The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.

The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.

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