To What Excesses Do Men Rush For

It Is Very Rare To Find Ground Which Produces Nothing; If It Is Not Covered With Flowers, With Fruit Trees And Grains, It Produces Briers And Pines. It Is The Same With Man; If He Is Not Virtuous, He Becomes Vicious.

It Seems To Me That The Spirit Of Politeness Is A Certain Attention In Causing That, By Our Words And By Our Manners, Others May Be Content With Us And With Themselves.

One Seeks To Make The Loved One Entirely Happy, Or, If That Cannot Be, Entirely Wretched.

No Man Is So Perfect, So Necessary To His Friends As To Give Them No Cause To Miss Him Less.

Love Begins With Love ; And The Warmest Friendship Cannot Change Even To The Coldest Love.