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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.
Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.
A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.
There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.
There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.
Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.
Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.
We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.
We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves.
There is a kind of love, the excess of which forbids jealousy.
No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.
Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.
It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception.
What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.
Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.
We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.
There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.