Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their.

I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.