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

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition.