Round numbers always lie.
He who praises anyone, praises no one.
He who wants to go through life honestly must bear in mind, in his youth, that he will grow old, and in his old age to remember that he was once young.
It is easier to endure evil than to inflict it on someone; for the same reason, it is easier to feel cheated than not to trust.
Hypocrisy is not a way to get pleasure.
Logic is the art of arriving at an unexpected conclusion.
The horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, but not a remarkable mathematician.
Better to live rich than die rich.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Curiosity is one of the most indisputable and obvious properties of a strong intellect.
People are more constant in hate than in love.
People don't suspect the mistakes they don't make.
People rarely read the books they received as gifts.
People will do anything just to be able to talk about what they are doing.
Trust me: we can only really hurt ourselves.
Men know that women are superior to them and therefore choose the weakest and most ignorant. If they thought otherwise, they wouldn't be afraid of women who know as much as they do.
Music is the only sensual and innocent pleasure.
We like to look beyond the borders we don't intend to cross.
We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never lied to us.
The mouse is an animal in front of which many women faint.
Hope is a kind of happiness and perhaps the only happiness possible in this world.
You'd have to be an idiot not to write for money.
As easy as it is for me to abstain, so hard for me to be frugal.
Our imagination is fueled not by pleasure but by hope.
Don't even think of leaving this world before the world regrets your departure.
For whatever reason you have been insulted, it is better to pay no attention to the insult, for stupidity is seldom capable of indignation, and anger is best punished by contempt.
Some cheaters choose dumber spouses, hoping to command them - and they always fail.
You can't hate a man you can make fun of.
There are few people in the world who have not been delighted by tyranny.
Misfortune makes a man wiser, though it does not ennoble him.