"We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us."

"Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear."

"The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it."

"There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other."

"The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her."

"There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over."

"Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side."

"The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy."

"There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not."

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."

"Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others."

"We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity."

"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."

"To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed."

"We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions."

"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples."

"As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish."

"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill."

"Cleverness is not wisdom."

"The wisest men follow their own direction"

"Often a noble face hides filthy ways."

"It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk"

"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom."

"In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom."