When Our Vices Desert Us, We Flatter

Imagination Does Not Enable Us To Invent As Many Different Contradictions As There Are By Nature In Every Heart.

It Is Easier To Fall In Love When You Are Out Of It Than To Get Out Of It When You Are In.

The Good Or The Bad Fortune Of Men Depends Not Less Upon Their Own Dispositions Than Upon Fortune.

Absence Diminishes Mediocre Passions And Increases Great Ones, As The Wind Extinguishes Candles And Fans Fires.

A Man, In Order To Establish Himself In The World, Does Everything He Can To Appear Established There.