It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
The strongest passion is fear.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
People must help one another it is nature's law.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.