Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
A person’s worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.
The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.
No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.
An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.
If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.