141 quotes found
“It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.”
“Taste may change, but inclination never.”
“Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.”
“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”
“We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.”
“Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.”
“Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.”
“If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.”
“The passions are the only orators which always persuade.”
“Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.”
“We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.”
“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
“There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.”
“What men call friendship is no more than a partnership a mutual care of interests an exchange of favors - in a word it is a sort of traffic in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.”
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
“What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones or the pleasure of change as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well and the hop...”
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
“Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.”
“If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”
“A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.”
