A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it but few...
Men often pass from love to ambition but they seldom come back again from...
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love...
There is only one kind of love but there are a thousand imitations.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists or...
True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity...
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as...
Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Hope deceiving as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives...
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars to which a great part...
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend...
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their...
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect...
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than...
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free...
Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil...
To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
We may seem great in an employment below our worth but we very often look...
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words so small...
It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management...
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of...
However glorious an action in itself it ought not to pass for great if it be...
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more...
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which...
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain...
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words so...
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones as the wind...
We seldom find any person of good sense except those who share our opinions.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good...
