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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, ...  
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they ar...  
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small f...  
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve...  
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed...  
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns o...  
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.  
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.  
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long i...  
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.  
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.  
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree ...  
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not fro...  
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his...  
To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.  
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.  
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.