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

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.

Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.