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.
Few people know how to be old.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies.
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
It is not enough to succeed a friend must fail.
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?
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.
When our vices leave us we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.
Weak people cannot be sincere.
Our minds are lazier than our bodies.
Affected simplicity is refined imposture.
If I advance follow me! If I retreat kill me! If I die avenge me!
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Of all our faults the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.