A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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