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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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