Interest blinds some and makes some see.
We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.
When our hatred is too bitter it places
We promise according to our hopes;
He is a truly good man who desires always
We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery —
There are foolish people who recognize their foolishness
Nothing prevents us being natural so
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities,
However brilliant an action it should not be esteemed
There is often more pride than goodness in our grief
for our enemies' miseries; it is to show how superior
we are to them,
People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst,
but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one
Pride is much the same in all men, the only difference
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves;
we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
us below those whom we hate.
we perform according to our fears.
to bear the inspection of good men.
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue.
we only dislike the method.
and use it skillfully.
much as the desire to appear so.
The praise we give to new comers into the world arises
from
the envy we bear to those who are established.
but by the use he makes of them.
great unless the result of a great motive.
that we bestow on them the sign of our compassion.
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions;
so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.
ever dare avow her.
is the method and manner of showing it.
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