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| At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. | | Love | |
| Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. | | Uncategorized | |
| Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part | | Uncategorized | |
| Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. | | Uncategorized | |
| Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. | | Uncategorized | |
| Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. | | Uncategorized | |
| Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself. | | Uncategorized | |
| Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued | | Uncategorized | |
| Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late | | Thought | |
| Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more. | | Uncategorized | |
| False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it. | | Uncategorized | |
| From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race. | | Uncategorized | |
| Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it. | | Uncategorized | |
| Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death | | Hate | |
| He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk. | | Uncategorized | |
| I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found. | | Uncategorized | |
| If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other. | | Uncategorized | |
| If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. | | Uncategorized | |
| If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are esteemable | | Uncategorized | |
