Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
Taste may change, but inclination never.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.