They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.