Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example

Few people know how to be old

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

One forgives to the degree that one loves

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations