Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.