“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”

“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”

“Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.”

“A weakling is incapable of sincerity.”

“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”

“87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a mor...”

“And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.”

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”

“Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”