“How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect how many times we have recounted to the same person?”

“How 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? ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld”

“How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?”

“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

“Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.”

“We forgive so long as we love.”