What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

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.