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Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
A man's worth has its season, like fruit.
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