The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

History never embraces more than a small part of reality

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

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