There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
It’s necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
I am not proud, but I am happy, and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
As a general rule,’he had once said, ‘people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or, if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.’
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.