The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.Collection: Happiness
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.Collection: Inspirational
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.Collection: Inspirational
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.Collection: Inspirational
An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.Collection: Bitterness
In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.Collection: Humility
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.Collection: Giving
That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.Collection: Fields
In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.Collection: Years
Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.Collection: Rivers
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.Collection: Daughter
The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.Collection: Happiness
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.Collection: Heart
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.Collection: Flames
Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.Collection: Sex
Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.Collection: Matter
None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.Collection: Fame
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.Collection: Learning
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.Collection: Eye
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusionCollection: Gains
To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.Collection: Sex
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.Collection: Life
There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.Collection: Sweet
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.Collection: Power
Those virtues which cost us dear prove that we love God; those which are easy to us prove that He loves us.Collection: Cost
Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.Collection: Motivational
It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.Collection: Taste
There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.Collection: Beauty
Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.Collection: White
Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?Collection: Beautiful
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.Collection: Ignorant
The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.Collection: Shunning
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.Collection: Men
When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.Collection: Death Of A Friend
To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.Collection: Passion
Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.Collection: Public Opinion
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.Collection: Giving
The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.Collection: Soul
We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it; we remember it if he forgets it.Collection: Birth
Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.Collection: Heart
It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.Collection: Riches
Our virtues live upon our incomes; our vices consume our capital.Collection: Vices
The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.Collection: Knaves
Rage is a short-lived fury.Collection: Rage
There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.Collection: Humanity
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.Collection: Laughing
No woman dares express all she thinks.Collection: Thinking
The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.Collection: Jailer
Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.Collection: Pleasure
Age whitens hairs, but not sin.Collection: Hair