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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

We always love those who admire us, we do not always love those whom we admire.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.

There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we are leaving them.

We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.