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.
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?
The head is always the dupe of the heart.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
Of all our faults the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
Few people know how to be old.
Weak people cannot be sincere.
If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!
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.
Affected simplicity is refined imposture.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.
The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
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