Treachery Is More Often The Effect Of

No Matter How Much Care We Put Into Hiding Our Passions Under The Appearances Of Devotion And Honor, They Can Always Be Seen To Peer Out Through These Covers.

None Deserve Praise For Being Good Who Have Not The Spirit To Be Bad: Goodness, For The Most Part, Is Nothing But Indolence Or Weakness Of Will.

The Man Whom No One Pleases Is Much More Unhappy Than The Man Who Pleases No One.

Unfaithfulness Ought To Extinguish Love, And We Should Not Be Jealous When There Is Reason To Be. Only Those Who Give No Grounds For Jealousy Are Worthy Of It.

How Can We Expect Another To Keep Our Secret If We Have Been Unable To Keep It Ourselves?