Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
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.
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.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
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 certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.