It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness.
Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that are offered.
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
Only the contemptible fear contempt.
True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said and that only.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.