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