141 quotes found
“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”
“87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a mor...”
“There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.”
“We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.”
“Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.”
“We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.”
“If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.”
“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
“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.”
“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
“If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”
“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.”
“Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness.”
“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.”
