Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.
The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.
He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.
False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.
Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
A man may doubt of God's existence when he is in good health, just as he may doubt whether his relation with a harlot is sinful. When he falls ill, when dropsy develops, he leaves his concubine, and he believes in God.
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.
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