Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker..

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune..

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, ….

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others..

It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it..

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect..

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence..

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other..

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others..

Banter is often a proof of want of intelligence..

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness..

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love..

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness..

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death..

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest..

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself..

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the pro….

To forget someone means to think of him..

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect..

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions..