A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between cause and effect.

Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from dist ...

If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, what of Sense is the Father.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.