 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. |
| A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. |
| The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. |
| The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. |
| The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest. |
| One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all. |
| Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. |
| Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. Topics: Children |
| 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. |
| Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. |
| We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. |
| One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. |
| There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. |
| At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. |
| Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. |
| Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. |
| The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile? |
| A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. |
| We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. |
| Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. |
