It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

She never asked for money, for gifts and priced ones, she always asked me for priceless love that was worth billions, where I failed.

Devil does not buy our empty soul. He waits for us to selling off that. (Diable n'achète notre âme vide. - Il attend qu'on la solde.)

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

I always feel I'm getting near to something that's got more to it than I can get hold of.

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

Having more candidates come with a creative and artistic sensibility would actually bring more people out to vote.