The greatest undisputed miracle is people's belief in miracles.
Joy is the sky under which all but enmity flourish.
Eternity is the time in which ideals live.
Taste is an aesthetic consciousness.
Imaginary hatred is much easier to turn into reality than imaginary love, and it is much easier for a man considered evil to be evil than it is for a good man to be good.
All respectable people are doomed to solitude, that is, to a life away from society.
Man is beautiful in everything when he asks for forgiveness or forgives others.
Folly is too innocent and senseless to be satirized, and contempt too wretched to be humored, though the immoral part of stupidity deserves satirical mockery, and the immoral part of contempt, comic ridicule.
They say the best rule of thumb in politics is don't drive too much. This rule is equally fair in education.
Men of valor gain more enemies by their speeches, than unworthy men by their evil deeds.
The despicable woman is the one who, having children, is able to get bored.
You can get to know your wife or girlfriend better in an hour spent in the company of a third person, than in twenty hours spent together.
Women transfer any idea to the personal plane.
Women stoically bear pains worse than those for which they shed tears.
Health, sleep, and wealth can be valued by the man who lost them and regained them.
Of all the arts, music is the most human and the most widespread.
Each is ready to correct the whole world rather than to correct himself.
Each of us is sure that we are more important and better than others, but only the stupid and mindless have the courage to admit it.
Everyone considers his life to be the beginning of a new age.
The book in which all the words are capitalized is difficult to read; so it is in life where all days are Sundays.
When women speak of women, they especially praise the wisdom of beautiful women, and the beauty of the wise, the voice of the peacock and the feathers of the nightingale.
He who can endure old age without love, has not loved even in his youth, for years are no hindrance to love.
He who boasts of knowing a secret has already revealed half of it, and he will gradually divulge the second.
People reveal their intentions most easily when they fail.
It's easier to forget ten kisses than one.
Love is a novel in a woman's life and a chapter in a man's life.
People are more willing to forgive slander than advice.
Small sufferings drive us out of our minds, big ones bring us back to normal. The cracked bell makes a muffled sound: break it in two and it will make a clean sound again.
Wise Apollo knew that hungry dogs hunt best, light dogs run best, that lean Pegasus is more durable than a heavy riding horse, that fire must be carved from flint. Therefore he rewarded his favorites doomed to poverty, ennobled their souls at the cost of their bodies, and gave them to live a little to live forever.
Courage does not consist in boldly facing danger, but in meeting it with open eyes.