Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. |
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. |
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. |
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. |
One often has need of one, inferior to himself. |
Patience and time do more than strength or passion. |
The argument of the strongest is always the best. |
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. |
By the work one knows the workman. |
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. |
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. |
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable. |
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. |
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. |
Luck's always to blame. |
People must help one another; it is nature's law. |
Help thyself and Heaven will help thee. |
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. |
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. |
The strongest passion is fear. |