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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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