"In short, Luck's always to blame."

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

"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."

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

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

"By the work one knows the workman."

"Better a living beggar than a buried emperor."

"Neither wealth or greatness render us happy."

"Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one."

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

"Rather suffer than die is man's motto."

"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

"The argument of the strongest is always the best."

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

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

"It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

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

"Help thyself and Heaven will help thee."

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

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

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

"The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them."

"Luck's always to blame."

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

"There is no road of flowers leading to glory."

"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."

"The strongest passion is fear."

"It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

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

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

"People who make no noise are dangerous."

"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."

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

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

"There is nothing useless to men of sense."