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Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.
Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.
A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.
We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.
A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.
Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.
Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.
To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.
A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.