Antoine François Prévost - Manon Lescaut (1731)

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Do you really think one can be truly loving when one is short of bread?

Antoine François Prévost
Nothing is more wonderful, or honors virtue more, than the confidence with which we turn to people whose probity we have long been acquainted with.

Antoine François Prévost
The portrait I have to paint is of…an ambiguous character, a mixture of virtues and vices, a perpetual contrast between good impulses and bad actions.

Antoine François Prévost
We should measure our wealth according to the means we have of satisfying our desires.

Antoine François Prévost
One cannot reflect for long on moral precepts without being astonished at seeing them, at one and the same time, revered and neglected, and without wondering what could be the reason for this vagary of the human heart, whereby it clings to principles of goodness and perfection from which it deviates in practice.

Antoine François Prévost
Nothing inspires more courage in a woman than fearlessness in the man she loves.

Antoine François Prévost
The foolishness of the great and the wealthy is an excellent source of revenue for the humble.

Antoine François Prévost
How many deserters there are from the rigours of virtue, how few from the cause of love!

Antoine François Prévost
Only experience or example can rationally determine which way the heart should incline. Now experience is not an advantage that it is open to everyone to acquire, since it depends on the various situations in which, by chance, we find ourselves. For many people, then, this leaves only example that can offer any guidance as to how they should exercise virtue.

Antoine François Prévost