If you want to make people weep, you must weep yourself. If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so

Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman