A hungry stomach cannot hear.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
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.
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
But the shortest works are always the best.
By the work one knows the workman.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Help thyself and Heaven will help thee.
I bend and do not break.
In short, Luck's always to blame.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Luck's always to blame.
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.
One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
One returns to the place one came from.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
People must help one another; it is nature's law.
People who make no noise are dangerous.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
The argument of the strongest is always the best.
The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.
The strongest passion is fear.
There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
There is nothing useless to men of sense.
We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
You can share a link to this page with your friend!