Defects
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.4.0 · 12 votes · 63 reads
Feelings
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.4.9 · 25 votes · 199 reads
Thought and Reason
There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.4.2 · 54 votes · 109 reads
Thought and Reason
There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.3.0 · 33 votes · 40 reads
Feelings
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.3.5 · 11 votes · 179 reads
Feelings
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.3.0 · 43 votes · 127 reads
Defects
We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.4.5 · 23 votes · 86 reads
Feelings
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.5.0 · 63 votes · 80 reads
Various
We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.4.5 · 63 votes · 44 reads
Thought and Reason
We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.3.8 · 56 votes · 90 reads
Thought and Reason
We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.3.8 · 46 votes · 190 reads
Thought and Reason
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.4.3 · 22 votes · 98 reads
Various
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.3.1 · 9 votes · 49 reads
Feelings
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.3.2 · 19 votes · 65 reads
Virtues
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.3.2 · 18 votes · 140 reads
Thought and Reason
We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.3.4 · 38 votes · 167 reads
Defects
We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.3.8 · 33 votes · 34 reads
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