Hearts are oftener blind than eyes. [ Mubarrad ]

Think of God oftener than you breathe. [ Epictetus ]

Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces. [ Proverb ]

Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than hunger. [ Jean Paul ]

Backbiting oftener proceeds from pride than malice. [ Proverb ]

We please oftener by our defects than by our virtues. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

None laugh better, and oftener, than women with fine teeth.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. [ Wellington ]

Conviction is oftener the child of Temperament than of Reason. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

One blushes oftener from the wounds of self love than from modesty. [ Mme. Guibert ]

Inconstancy is sometimes due to levity of mind, but oftener to satiety. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. [ W. Penn ]

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty. [ Samuel Smiles ]

I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness. [ Greville ]

Men, as well as women, are oftener led by their hearts than their understandings. The way to the heart is through the senses; please their eyes and ears, and the work is half done. [ Chesterfield ]

Extreme avarice is nearly always mistaken; there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future. [ La Rochefoucauld ]