Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.
Women read each other at a single glance.
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
True felicity consists of its own consciousness.