Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
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.
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.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
There are no ugly women there are only women who do not know how to look pretty.
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.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
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.