All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

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 product of a master craftsman.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

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

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

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

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.