If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
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.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
There are no ugly women there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.
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.
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.
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