There is what is called the highway to posts and honor, and there is a cross and by way, which is much the shortest.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

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

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

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

He who has lived a day has lived an age.