Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
The soul has more diseases than the body.
It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.