When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
Interest, ambition, fortune, time, temper, love, all kill friendship.
Length of saying makes languor of hearing.
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.