Janet Watson Quotes

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

It is great cleverness to known when to conceal one`s cleverness

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those who have obliged us

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

It is more shameful to mistrust one`s friends than to be deceived by them

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

A man who is always satisfied with himself is seldom so with others, and others as little pleased with him

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example

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

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.