If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

The more the change, the more it is the same thing.

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.