Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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.
Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
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.
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.
Where violence reigns, reason is weak.
Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.
Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
Success makes success, like money makes money.
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.
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