141 quotes found
“Hope is the last thing that dies in man.”
“We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.”
“The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”
“Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.”
“Happiness is in the taste and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like not from possessing what others like.”
“The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.”
“Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness.”
“In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.”
“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.”
“In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.”
“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
“To establish oneself in the world one has to do all one can to appear established.”
“There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.”
“The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.”
“Nothing is so infectious as example.”
“It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.”
“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.”
“True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said and that only.”
“We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.”
“The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.”
