Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully.
Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully.
The struggle we undergo to remain faithful to one we love is little better than infidelity.
The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are a natural art, the rules of which are infallible and the simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
Sincerity is an openness of heart we find it in very few people what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
Honest people will respect us for our merit the public, for our luck.
It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy
Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we hate.
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.
We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
Weak people cannot be sincere.
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
Old people are fond of giving good advice it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.
We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories