Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.
To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.