"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."

"Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others."

"The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune."

"Fortune and humor govern the world."

"Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind."

"There are few good women who do not tire of their role."

"In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors."

"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."

"It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves."

"We pardon to the extent that we love."

"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."

"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."

"Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does."

"I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony."

"Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen."

"By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense."

"I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me."

"I certainly feel injustice. I'm no foreigner to that, whether it's real or perceived."

"I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either."

"I've been no stranger to change."

"Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with."

"I don't feel restless, I just like to travel."

"My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'"

"Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise."