The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.