262 quotes found
“Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.”
“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”
“Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.”
“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.”
“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
“We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation”
“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.”
“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
“How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.”
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”
“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.”
“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...”
