"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence"
"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly"
"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity"
"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me"
"The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre"
"Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream"
"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears"
"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak"
"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky"
"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions"
"Few men have been admired of their familiars"
"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum"
"In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you"
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face"
"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears"
"A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself"
"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I"
"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it"
"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love"
"I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy"
"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself"
"I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better"
"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie"
"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing"
"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables"
"Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self"
"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition"
"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them"
"Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations"
"Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies"
"Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness"
"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity"
"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience"
