Evil tongues never want a whet.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.

Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.

A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

I learned that you can't have any expectations with life. You never know what's going to happen.

I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.

Don't follow those who talk, follow those who do.