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It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.

Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.

There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one’s dearest friends.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.

Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart’s spoils.

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.

The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred, nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep!

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

Without big words, how could many people say small things?

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

It is easy to be virtuous in prospective.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

Rage is a short-lived fury.

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider’s web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded.

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