Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

We rarely find people have good sense unless they agree with us.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about but few have seen.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

We all have the strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones.

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one’s skill.

It is easy to deceive oneself without perceiving it --as it is difficult to deceive others without their perceiving it.

We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

A man who cannot find tranquility in himself will search for it in vain elsewhere.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore.

In jealousy, there is more self-love than love.

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood the motives that produced them.

Love of justice in the generality of men is only the fear of suffering from injustice.

There is nothing more horrible than the murder of a beautiful theory by a brutal gang of facts.

When our hatred is too keen, it puts us beneath those whom we hate.

The renown of great men should always be measured by the means which they have used to acquire it.

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

Few people know how to be old.

In the misfortune of our best friends, we always find something which is not displeasing to us.

The gratitude of most men is merely a secret desire to receive greater benefits.

Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks.