Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.
He who has lived a day has lived an age.
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.