In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.