Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.

It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.