"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."

"Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please."

"We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire."

"We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity."

"Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others."

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."

"It is not enough to succeed, others must fail."

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

"There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not."

"One forgives to the degree that one loves."

"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."

"Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another."

"For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice."

"The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires."

"All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones."

"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess."

"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on."

"True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world."

"We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger."

"Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves."

"Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves."

"The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy"

"Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred."

"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."

"Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side."

"There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over."

"The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her."

"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."

"The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it."

"Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear."

"We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us."

"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."

"Usually we praise only to be praised."

"Conceit causes more conversation than wit."

"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."

"When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

"There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means."

"We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally."

"The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception."

"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."

"To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established."

"Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so."

"It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness."

"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

"If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship."

"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."

"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love."

"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."

"What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given."

"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."