Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anx….

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by..

Old age diminishes our strength; it takes away our pleasures one after the other; it withers the soul as well as the body; it renders adventure and f….

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently....

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny..

Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond..

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record..

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know..

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment..

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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..

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

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 ….

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

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