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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man... →
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as... →
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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