262 quotes found
“The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.”
“Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.”
“If we are to judge of love by its consequences it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
“It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.”
“Everyone complains of his lack of memory but nobody of his want of judgement.”
“We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.”
“Happiness is in the taste and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like not from possessing what others like.”
“The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.”
“Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness.”
“In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.”
“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.”
“In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.”
“If we resist our passions it is more due to their weakness than to our strength.”
“Weak people cannot be sincere.”
“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”
“If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”
“To establish oneself in the world one has to do all one can to appear established.”
“There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.”
“The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.”
“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”
