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.

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.

He who leaves the game wins it.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death.

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

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.