Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on..

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few ….

To desire to be perpetually in the society of a pretty woman until the end of one's days, is as if, because one likes good wine, one wished always to….

You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him..

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder..

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance..

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison..

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it..

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it..

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful..

An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his son, bu….

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world..

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in….

Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies..

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness..

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things the….

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz..

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors..

What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-est….

It is often said that in prosperity we have many friends, but that we are usually neglected when things go badly. I disagree. Not only do malicious p….

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book..