There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.