In afflictions there are various kinds of hypocrisy. In one, under the pretext of weeping for one dear to us we bemoan ourselves; we regret her good opinion of us, we deplore the loss of our comfort, our pleasure, our consideration. Thus the dead have the |
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances. |
In all professions we affect a part and an appearance to seem what we wish to be. Thus the world is merely composed of actors. |
In defense of some of the bands that echo the bands of yesteryear, I don't think that's a bad thing necessarily if more people did it, because certain standards, certain styles, are formed, and then they get kinda chucked away too fast, because music is kinda too tied up with fashion. |
In growing old we become more foolish—and more wise. |
In jealousy there is more of self-love than love. |
In love deceit almost always goes further than mistrust. |
In love the quickest is always the best cure. |
In love we often doubt what we most believe. |
In love, the one who is cured first is cured the best |
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors. |
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing |
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. |
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another. |
In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities. |