“We love without heeding reason, and cease to love in the same manner.”

“Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.”

“When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.”

“Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.”

“Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.”

“We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.”

“There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.”