We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

One returns to the place one came from.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

I bend and do not break.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.

By the work one knows the workman.

Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

But the shortest works are always the best.

People must help one another; it is nature’s law.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.

The strongest passion is fear.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Luck’s always to blame.

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

In short, Luck’s always to blame.