Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tosse….

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss..

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it..

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence..

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall..

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never..

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever..

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it..

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is….

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate de….

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates..

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do w….

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest..

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away..

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit..

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it..

The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompan….

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it..

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty..

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second phi….

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three..