262 quotes found
“If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”
“A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.”
“We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we suppose ourselves to be.”
“The head is always the dupe of the heart.”
“No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.”
“Generosity is the vanity of giving.”
“There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.”
“Hope deceitful as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.”
“Hope is the last thing that dies in man.”
“Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.”
“Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.”
“Of all our faults the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.”
“We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.”
“Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt.”
“We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.”
“The intellect is always fooled by the heart.”
“In jealousy there is more self-love than love.”
“If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!”
“Before strongly desiring anything we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.”
