55 quotes found
“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”
“Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.”
“A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.”
“Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.”
“The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.”
“The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.”
“Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.”
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.”
“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.”
“A modest man never talks of himself.”
“He who has lived a day has lived an age.”
“Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its brevity.”
“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”
“A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.”
“There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.”
“We must laugh before we are happy for fear of dying without having laughed at all.”
“It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.”
“There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.”
“There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.”
“A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.”
