141 quotes found
“There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ou...”
“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”
“It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them. ”
“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”
“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”
“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
“One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.”
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.”
“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.”
“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”
“We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.”
“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
“Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.”
“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.”
