Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.
The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.
A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
A long disease seems to be a halting place between life and death, that death itself may be a comfort to those who die and to those who are left behind.
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'
There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
The reason that women do not love one another is - men.
The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.
A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]
A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time.
That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.
A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income.
I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
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