262 quotes found
“Nothing is so infectious as example.”
“It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.”
“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself seeks for it in vain elsewhere.”
“Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.”
“True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said and that only.”
“Affected simplicity is refined imposture.”
“We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.”
“Our minds are lazier than our bodies.”
“The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.”
“True love is like ghosts which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
“When our vices leave us we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.”
“There are few chaste women who are not tired of their trade.”
“Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.”
“We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.”
“What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.”
“It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.”
“One can find women who have never had a love affair but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.”
“True eloquence consists of saying all that should be not all that could be said.”
“I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.”
“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those invo...”
