Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.