Roman • Writer
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
We die as often as we lose a friend.
It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
Practice is the best of all instructors.
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
He who spares the bad injures the good.
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
