One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

The doctors allow one to die, the charlatans kill.

A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.

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.

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.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.