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| We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his imp | | Uncategorized | |
| We do not usually reckon a woman's first flirtation until she has had a second. | | Uncategorized | |
| We do not wish to lose life; we do wish to gain glory, and this makes brave men show more tact and address in avoiding death, than rogues show in preserving their fortunes. | | Uncategorized | |
| We easily forget crimes that are known only to ourselves | | Uncategorized | |
| We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive. | | Uncategorized | |
| We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we should praise Prince Condé and Marshal Turenne much less if we did not want to blame them both. | | Uncategorized | |
| We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone. | | Uncategorized | |
| We frequently do good to enable us with impunity to do evil. | | Uncategorized | |
| We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves. | | Habit | |
| We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. | | Uncategorized | |
| We give up more easily our interest than our taste. | | Uncategorized | |
| We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not | | Uncategorized | |
| We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have few faults which are not far more excusable than the means we adopt to hide them. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have more idleness in the mind than in the body. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have much trouble to break with one, when we no longer are in love. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have not enough strength to follow all our reason. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have not the courage to say generally that we have no faults, and that our enemies have no good qualities; but in fact we are not far from believing so. | | Uncategorized | |
| We keep our first lover for a long time—if we do not get a second. | | Uncategorized | |
