Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Every advantage has its tax

Thereare two sides to every question.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him