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

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

“The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.”

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

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

“We do not despise all those with vices, but we do despise all those without a single virtue.”

“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undecieved by them.”