The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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.
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
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.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.