There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
Happiness wishes everybody happy.
What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.