| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ambition | A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. |
| Blushes | Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. |
| Children | Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. |
| Deceit | You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? |
| Deceit | We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood. |
| Generosity | Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. |
| Heroes | Rarely do they appear great before their valets. |
| Hypocrisy | When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face. |
| Jewels | The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. |
| Judges | A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice. |
| Laughter | We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. |
| Linguists | Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. |
| Merit | The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. |
| Merit | The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. |
| Miracles | Out of difficulties grow miracles. |
| Misfortune | All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. |
| Modesty | Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out. |
| Pearls | The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. |
| Royalty | The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. |
| Secrecy | We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. |
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