There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

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

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.