“Luck's always to blame.”
“Still people are dangerous.”
“In short, luck's always to blame.”
“By the work one knows the workmen.”
“Rather suffer than die is man's motto.”
“One returns to the place one came from.”
“Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.”
“Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.”
“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”
“Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.”
“Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.”
“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
“One often has need of one, inferior to himself.”
“He knows the universe and does not know himself.”
“The argument of the strongest is always the best.”
“It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”
“The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.”
“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”
“Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.”
“Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.”
“A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.”
“We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.”
“Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.”
“Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.”
“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish”
“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.”
“Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.”
“Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.”
“We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.”
“To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.”