All the doctrines that have flourished in the world about immortality have hardly affected man's natural sentiment in the face of death.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

She wished she liked him more.She wished she loved him less.

We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

Politicians are the sole cause of our incurable social eczema

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.

People will not follow a leader who does not have confidence in himself.

It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.