If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
A modest man never talks of himself.
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.
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
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