We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes.

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.