The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. |
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. |
The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him. |
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. |
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. |
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. |
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. |
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. |
I have spoken of love. It is hard to go from people who kiss one another to people who eat one another. |
When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy. |