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

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

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

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

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

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

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.