 Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. Topics: Marriage |
| Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. |
| The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory. |
| Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth. |
| What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. |
| The sinews of war are infinite money. |
| What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? Topics: Children |
| To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. |
| We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. |
| Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. |
| Laws are silent in time of war. |
| Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. |
| Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything. |
| There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. |
| The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. |
| Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. |
| A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. |
| Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. |
| I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors. |
| Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. |
