One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. - Jean de La Bruyère

A fool is always troublesome, a man of sense perceives when he pleases or is tiresome ; he goes away the very minute before it might have been thought he stayed too long.

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain.

Ce grand malheur, de ne pouvoir etre seul.