141 quotes found
“Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do no...”
“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”
“A weakling is incapable of sincerity.”
“It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.”
“True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.”
“We forgive so long as we love.”
“Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.”
“There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.”
“It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it.”
“He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.”
“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
“It is with true love as with ghosts. Every one talks of it but few have seen it.”
“In love we often doubt what we most believe.”
“Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power”
“Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.”
“We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.”
“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
“In jealousy there is more of self-love than love”
