We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.