"We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones."

"The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech."

"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."

"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect."

"Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed."

"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."

"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue."

"Generosity is the vanity of giving."

"Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them."

"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

"We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."

"If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves."

"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."

"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."

"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."

"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit."

"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."

"We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude."

"We give advice but we do not inspire conduct."

"A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself."

"He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much, but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken."

"We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done."

"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."

"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."

"Our minds are lazier than our bodies."

"We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones."

"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."

"The mind is always the patsy of the heart."

"Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment."

"It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved."

"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."

"Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead."

"Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter."

"In jealousy there is more of self - love than love."

"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do."

"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."

"In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be - and thus the world is merely composed of actors."

"Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely - held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats."

"We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation."

"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

"Self - love is the greatest of all flatterers."

"We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions."

"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."

"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."

"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."

"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."

"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."

"Affected simplicity is refined imposture."

"People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune."