In love we often doubt what we most believe.

Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.

It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.

He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not...

It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.

A weakling is incapable of sincerity.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be–and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, “Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to...

Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

We forgive so long as we love.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.