“In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.”

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.

The substance is almost invisible to us.

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

This is one of the magical things about drawing – it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.