The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it
The reason that women do not love one another is - men.
A man reveals his character even in the simplest things he does.
There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.
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