The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
We all covet wealth, but not its perils.
Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.
He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
If it be usual to be strongly impressed by things that are scarce, why are we so little impressed by virtue?
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.
They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.
A man who knows the court is master of his gestures, of his eyes and of his face; he is profound, impenetratable; he dissimulates bad offices, smiles at his enemies, controls his irritation, disguises his passions, belies his heartm speaks and acts against his feelings.
There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a man, and so a man will look upon a woman as a woman.
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.
Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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