Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.