We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Still people are dangerous.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
One returns to the place one came from.
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.
Luck's always to blame.
In short, luck's always to blame.
Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
By the work one knows the workmen.
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
He knows the universe and does not know himself.
Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.