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

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

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.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.