We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
From Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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