Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
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.
One may outwit another, but not all the others.
There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
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.
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.
We forgive so long as we love.
Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
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.
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person’s heart.
The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.
If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.