 Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. |
| When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes. |
| We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions. |
| A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. |
| The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices. |
| In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances. |
| Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. |
| We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. |
| Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. |
| When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them. |
| In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us. |
| We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own. |
| The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech. |
| Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. |
| The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. |
| To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die. |
| The intellect is always fooled by the heart. |
| Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on. Topics: Courage |
| It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not. |
| What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them. |
