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It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.
If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.
We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.
There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.
Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.
A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.
We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.
A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.
You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?
If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable.
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.