"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."
"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
"Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example."
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
"Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment."
"Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love."
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."
"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen."
"We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation."
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength."
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."
"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side."
"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart."
"We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others."
"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all."
"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."
"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
"I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it."
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
"Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference."
