 The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. |
| The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying. |
| Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. |
| It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. |
| What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several. |
| A man's worth has its season, like fruit. |
| Taste may change, but inclination never. |
| If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us. |
| We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. |
| In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. |
| We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. |
| Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. |
| True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. |
| People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. |
| Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so. |
| If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. |
| The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity. |
| Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like. |
| There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness. |
| However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. Topics: Friendship |
