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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.  
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take...  
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to ...  
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the ...   Love
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ...  
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so...  
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.  
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how ha...  
Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been play...  
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.  
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.  
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most ...  
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment...  
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of appl...  
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency...  
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor o...  
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad e...  
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.  
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.  
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues tha...  
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our...  
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to...  
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.  
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.  
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indi...  
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be gr...  
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembl...  
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in...  
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our s...  
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what ...  
In love we often doubt what we most believe.  
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors...  
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow ...  
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not al...  
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of...  
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.  
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.  
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.  
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the mana...  
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, bu...  
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice a...  
It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.  
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.  
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.  
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as s...  
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.  
Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pas...  
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambit...  
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own...  
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.  
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to concea...  
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye  
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most b...  
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.  
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.  
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if ...  
Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or...  
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear na...  
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures o...  
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their...  
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their ina...  
One forgives to the degree that one loves.   Forgiveness
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.  
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we ...  
Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.  
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiot...  
Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.  
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.  
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before...  
Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would...  
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people...  
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.  
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.  
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.  
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of...  
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself...  
Taste may change, but inclination never.  
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as...  
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.  
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.  
The heart is forever making the head its fool.  
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.  
The mind is always the patsy of the heart.  
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.  
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.  
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some th...  
The passions are the only orators which always persuade.  
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are alwa...  
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that eac...  
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without e...  
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than ot...  
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.  
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.  
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite de...  
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their...  
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.  
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which make...  
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love w...  
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a...  
There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or...  
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or ...   Love
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.  
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily susp...  
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become inca...  
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom ...  
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.  
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.  
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.  
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen...   Love
Usually we praise only to be praised.  
Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.  
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.  
We always get bored with those whom we bore.  
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those wh...  
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in t...  
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculatio...  
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more tha...  
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end w...  
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.  
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ...  
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those th...  
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we...  
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.  
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom w...  
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we ar...  
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no b...  
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.  
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our op...  
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve...  
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could se...  
We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of ...  
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves a...  
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.  
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enj...  
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.  
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual...  
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, ...  
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.  
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.  
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a...  
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and no...  
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least trivialit...  
Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.