I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.