What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.