We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.