You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.