Book: Maxims and moral reflections. Page 3

How a crime becomes easier to gain a patron, rather than innocence!

No quality is more rare than a true kindness: most people who consider themselves good, just indulgent or weak.

Our peace of mind or confusion depend not only on the most important events of our life, how successful or unpleasant combination of personal details.

No matter how evil people, they still lack the courage to pursue virtue. Therefore, preparing to attack her, they pretend they think it is hypocritical, or ascribe to her of some crime.

There are people so absorbed in themselves that when you fall in love, they manage to think more about their love than about the object of his passion.

The mind is limited, but common in the end not so tiring to the interlocutor, as the mind is wide, but confused.

Talents that God has given people as diverse as the trees with which he adorned the earth, and each has special features and brings inherent rewards. Because of that, the best pear tree will never bring forth, even crappy apples, and the most talented person passes in front of the case although ordinary, but given only to those who this case is capable of.

We often denounce the shortcomings of others, but rarely, using their example, correct own.

When we are happy or sad, our feelings are not so much proportionate to the successes or troubles, which we share, how our ability to feel.

People are praised or abused most often what is used to praise or scolding.

True-flagellation puts himself the only one who anyone about this notification; otherwise all facilitated by the vanity.

A clear mind gives the soul what health is to the body.

A true friend is the greatest of earthly blessings, though for this blessing, we pursue.

We almost always are bored with those who are bored with us.