Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.