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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.
In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.
It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.
Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.
That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.
Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.
Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.
Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.
If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.
Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.
Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.
Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
We make promises to the extent that we hope-and keep them to the extent that we fear.
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.
Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue often gets the praise.
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.
There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.
Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.
Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.
There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.
Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.