38 quotes found
“We forgive so long as we love.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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”
“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 Aim Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral...”
“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.”
