Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart..

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people..

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat..

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked..

Without big words, how could many people say small things?.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds..

Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others..

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said..

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enric….

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us..

Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own..

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself..

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others..

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others..

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerou….

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it..

We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it..

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day..

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste..

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases..