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Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. - [Fortune] Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth. - [Honesty] No woman dares express all she thinks. - [Timidity] None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it. - [Fame] Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. - [Abundance] Of all trifles, titles are the lightest. - [Titles] Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. - [Interest] Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital. - [Virtue] People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours. - [Politics] Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them. - [Servants] Pleasure and satiety live next door to each other. - [Satiety] Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone. - [Pleasure] Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread. - [Promises] Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting. - [Popularity] Rage is a short-lived fury. - [Rage] Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded. - [Religion] Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked. - [Discretion] That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. - [Experience] That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest. - [Prudery] The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted. - [Graves] The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself. - [Conscience] The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. - [Happiness] The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. - [Hatred] The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it. - [Power] The most exacting jailer is our own conscience. - [Conscience] Displaying page 2 of 3 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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