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The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
Women are extreme; they are better than men, or worse.
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.
When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.
How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.
Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honor and conscience, to obtain them: It is to pay so dear from them that the bargain is a loss.
There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
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