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Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
It is not enough that we should succeed, but our friends must fail as well.
Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.
We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.
Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.
We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.
The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.
Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
We have not strength enough to follow our reason so far as it would carry us.
If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.
There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner.
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.
Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.