Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolen….

It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side..

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death..

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less..

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment..

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all..

Love and friendship exclude each other..

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death..

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others..

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice..

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her..

It requires more than mere genius to be an author..

Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love..

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood..

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love..

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes the….

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one..

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a….

Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.].

Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they….

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood..