"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen"
"Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude"
"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill"
"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die"
"Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it"
"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences"
"Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side"
"People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune"
"People always complain about their memories, never about their minds"
"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever"
"Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised"
"Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us"
"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect"
"Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves"
"Only the contemptible fear contempt"
"One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines"
"One forgives to the degree that one loves"
"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"
"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them"
"Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it"
"Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love"
"Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it"
"It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one"
