As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.
False praise is always confined to the great.
Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.
A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.
Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.
Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.