"All the passions make us commit faults;..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.”

“Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.”

“Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.”

“Without passions you have no experience whatever.”

“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”

“A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.”

“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.”

“All we really want is love's confusing joy.”

“I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.”