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

“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.”

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

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

“He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.”

“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”