To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.