“It is a kind of happiness to know just how unhappy we could be.”
“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undecieved by them.”
“The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.”
“When not prompted by vanity, we say little.”
“Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.”
“He who lives without folly is not as wise as he may think.”
“All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”