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Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.
It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular
Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.
It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.
Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.
The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.
Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.
We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.
The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.
Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.
As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.
Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.
To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.
We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.
People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.
Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.
Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.