The more we love, the nearer we are to hate.

The only security is courage.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.