“Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.”
“Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.”
“None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.”
“The while we keep a man waiting, he reflects on our shortcomings.”
“Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.”
“Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.”
“In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.”
“Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.”
“Everyone according to their talent and every talent according to its work.”
“There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.”
“It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.”
“He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering.”
“There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.”
“Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.”
“By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.”
“In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?”
“People will ignore their misfortunes and their interests when they are in competition with their pleasures.”
“What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.”
“He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with the utmost attention.”