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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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