262 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”
“True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.”
“Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.”
“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”
“There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.”
“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”
“We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.”
“We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.”
