I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger...
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
A man’s happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
In the presence of some people we inevitably depart From ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, And talk nonsense. When we get home we are conscious that we Have made fools of ourselves. Never go near these people.
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.