A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself |
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. |
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. |
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. |
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid |
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. |
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. |
Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part |
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. |
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. |
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. |
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself. |
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do. |
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued |
Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late |