“There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.”
“Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.”
“The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.”
“To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.”
“Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.”
“If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.”
“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
“Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
“The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.”
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.”
“In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.”
“If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.”
“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
“It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.”
“There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.”
“Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.”
“Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.”
“There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.”
“We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.”
“We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.”
“Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.”
“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.”
“Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.”
“What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.”
“Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.”
“Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.”
“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.”
“A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.”
“Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.”
“How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.”