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.
The head is always the dupe of the heart.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.
We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.
One can find women who have never had a love affair but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
When our vices leave us we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
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?
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
Of all our faults the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
Few people know how to be old.
True eloquence consists of saying all that should be not all that could be said.
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