262 quotes found
“Weak people cannot be sincere.”
“Few people know how to be old.”
“We forgive so long as we love.”
“Generosity is the vanity of giving.”
“Nothing is so infectious as example.”
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”
“How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.”
“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
“We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation”
“Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do no...”
“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”
“A weakling is incapable of sincerity.”
“It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.”
“In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.”
“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”
“Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.”
“True love is like ghosts which many believe in, but few have seen.”
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”
“Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.”
