"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first."

"Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder."

"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth."

"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."

"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent."

"Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy."

"There is the sky, which is all men's together."

"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."

"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God."

"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love."

"Authority is never without hate."

"In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom."

"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change."

"No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will."

"I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief"

"Leave no stone unturned."

"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom."

"Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand."

"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far."

"The good and the wise lead quiet lives."

"The best of seers is he who guesses well."

"The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it."

"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others."

"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself."

"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."

"Little things comfort us because little things distress us."

"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."

"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal"

"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry."

"Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise"

"New faces have more authority than accustomed ones."

"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."

"The bold are helpless without cleverness"

"To generous souls every task is noble."

"Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.'"

"The lucky person passes for a genius"

"It's the wise man who stays home when he's drunk"

"Often a noble face hides filthy ways."

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?"

"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others."

"To understand is to forgive."

"Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other."

"The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog."

"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."

"Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness."