“We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.”
“All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.”
“We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.”
“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
“We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.”
“Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.”
“When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
“The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.”
“Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.”
“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
“When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.”
“We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.”
“We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.”
“If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.”
“There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.”
“The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.”
“If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.”
“What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.”
“The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.”
“Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.”
“Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.”
“Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.”
“To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.”
“We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.”
“It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.”
“Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.”
“Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.”
“How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.”
“The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.”
“There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.”