Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.