When we read a good book for the first time, we experience the same feeling when we make a new friend. Re-reading the same book means seeing an old friend again.
I love life anyway. This foolish weakness is, perhaps, one of our fatal defects: that what can be more foolish than the desire to carry a burden that you wish to throw to the ground; to be terrified of your own existence and keep crawling.
I always, as far as possible, lead my metaphysics to morality. In this world success is achieved only with the point of the sword and one dies with the weapon in hand.
I may not agree with your arguments, but I will give my life for your right to express them.
I have wasted 40 years on pilgrimages to two or three corners of this world in order to find the philosopher's stone called Truth. I consulted all the admirers of antiquity, Epicurus and Augustine, Plato and Malebranche, but I remained as poor as at first.
And what if I am above my own reputation?
No wine and no songs.
In love, even "too much" is not enough.
In our times, what cannot be spoken, is sung.
At a certain age, decent people forgive each other their mistakes, weaknesses, and former impetuous passions that led to a distance between them, and give way to a tender affection.
The wind that blows out the candle, rekindles the fire in the hearth.
There are no cures for everything.
There is a great law in life: one is a shepherd and another is a king! Birth is an accident The mind does not have the same. The almighty ruler Through life is fleeting, Only Voltaire is immortal.
Where there is no freedom of criticism, no praise is pleasant.
Bullshit in the media only gains power when it has difficulty spreading it.
Stupidity and vanity always go hand in hand.
The anger of good people is nothing more than an insistent need to forgive.
To achieve the proposed goal, the entrepreneurial spirit is as necessary as the knowledge.
If we were to take into account all the virtues required of a servant, how many masters capable of serving would be found?
Women really like to be thought of as ruthless.
To live is to fight - to fight is to live.
Force even the most impartial judge to try his own case and you will see how he will interpret the laws!
Marriage is the ugliest of uglies.
It is well known that the essence of the case is the domain of the litigants, while the form belongs to the judges.
Sooner or later, the plot will lose the one who generated it.
You can only set people straight by portraying them as they really are.
Every man is always someone's child.
As soon as it was noticed that, with the passage of time, old nonsense acquires an air of wisdom, and old inventions, which have become the subject of frivolous gossip, give rise to great, even grandiose truths, the world was filled with truths as big as leaf and grass. There is a truth that everyone knows, but no one talks about, because not every truth can be spoken. There is a truth that everyone extols, but not wholeheartedly, because you can't trust every truth. What shall we say of the vows of lovers, of the threats of mothers, of the promises of drunkards, of the promises of potentates, of the last word of merchants? And so on to infinity!
An astute client always knows his case better than any lawyer: lawyers go out of their way, get hysterical to the point of hoarseness, just to demonstrate their competence in absolutely everything and everything, but less so in this case, and once with these they are but little moved by the fact that they have brought the client to the wood-hoe, tired the hearers, and put the judges to sleep….
When a woman gets angry, don't look for common sense in her words!