"All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones"
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires"
"A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant"
"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win"
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire"
"A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice"
"A man's worth has its season, like fruit"
"A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others"
"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter"
"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us"
"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them"
"We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions"
"We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own"
"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it"
"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves"
"We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves"
"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves"
"We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue"
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones"
"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years"
"We are very far from always knowing our own wishes"
"We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others"
