The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.