To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.
People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.