The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
Happiness is in the taste and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like not from possessing what others like.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.