| Quotes |
Topic |
| Absence | Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. |
| Admiration | We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. |
| Anticipation | Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. |
| Behavior | We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us. |
| Chastity | There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. |
| Disguise | We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves. |
| Evil | There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does. |
| Flattery | We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered. |
| Fools | He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. |
| Gratitude | We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them. |
| Innocence | Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. |
| Jealousy | In jealousy there is more of self-love than love. |
| Pride | Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. |
| Secrets | How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves. |
| Vices | When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them. |
| Weakness | We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation. |
| Wrong | There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. |
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