262 quotes found
“We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.”
“Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.”
“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.”
“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
“We always love those who admire us and we do not always love those whom we admire.”
“Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.”
“We give advice but we do not inspire conduct.”
“Few people know how to be old.”
“Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”
“How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?”
“We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.”
“Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.”
“True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.”
“Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.”
“Conceit causes more conversation than wit.”
“The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.”
“Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.”
“He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”
“The reason why lovers are never wary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves.”
