Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them..

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable..

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears..

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us..

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy..

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference..

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them..

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere..

The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived..

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen..

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily..

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier..

One forgives to the degree that one loves..

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense..

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does..

Humility is the worst form of conceit..

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary….

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example..

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only..

Weak people cannot be sincere..

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding..