The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.
Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion
There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.
Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.
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