262 quotes found
“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.”
“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”
“You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.”
“One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.”
“There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.”
“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
“No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.”
“He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.”
“Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.”
“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.”
“We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.”
“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”
“Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.”
“There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ou...”
“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”
“It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them. ”
“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
“We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.”
“Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.”
“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”
