High Birth Is A Gift Of Fortune

Men Fall From Great Fortune Because Of The Same Shortcomings That Led To Their Rise.

For A Long Time Visits Among Lovers And Professions Of Love Are Kept Up Through Habit, After Their Behavior Has Plainly Proved That Love No Longer Exists.

He Who Knows How To Wait For What He Desires Does Not Feel Very Desperate If He Fails In Obtaining It; And He, On The Contrary, Who Is Very Impatient In Procuring A Certain Thing, Takes So Much Pains About It, That, Even When He Is Successful, He Does Not Think Himself Sufficiently Rewarded.

We Trust Our Secrets To Our Friends, But They Escape From Us In Love.

All Of Our Unhappiness Comes From Our Inability To Be Alone.