People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
The future is a convenient place for dreams.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.