Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.
False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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