It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

Unhappiness does make people look stupid.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

Change is the essence of life.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

The more you say, the less they remember.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.