"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.