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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.