“All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”

“Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.”

“Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”

“In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.”

“It is with true love as with ghosts and apparitions: Every one talks of it, and scarcely any one has seen it”

“It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.”

“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”