“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”
Hope“One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.”
Women“In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.”
Hope“It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.”
Men“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
Friendship“The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.”
Age“We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.”
Best“We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.”
Love“In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.”
Best“Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.”
Fear“What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”
Business“Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.”
Men“There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”
Love“It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.”
Men“Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.”
Great“Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.”
Best“We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.”
Great“If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.”
Peace“One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.”
Women“A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.”
Work“Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.”
Change“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.”
Men