No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

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

He who has lived a day has lived an age.

The reason that women do not love one another is - men.