Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath,but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, everypart of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Lifeconsists...
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the...
Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if t...
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived... (Bk2:3)
Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to show themselves, let their qualities be tested and confirmed, before special methods are...
A born king is a very rare being.
The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crim...
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
All that time is lost which might be better employed.
To write a good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.