We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
Imitation is suicide.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Nature always wears colours of the spirit.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
