We often forgive those who bore us but can't forgive those whom we bore.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary and nothing but what is necessary.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
The head is always the dupe of the heart.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
When our vices leave us we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.
If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
Of all our faults the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Affected simplicity is refined imposture.
Weak people cannot be sincere.
Few people know how to be old.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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