We never live, but we are always in the expectation of living.
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
I survived. (J'ai vecu.)
I believe in the gods. Or rather, I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent-minded.
We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.
The ripest fruit first falls.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.
When one friend washes another, both become clean.
When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound Tokens of love and hate, black sorcery stones.
Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards, or menaces of torture.
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
The war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battleflags were furl'd In the parliament of man, the federation of the world.
Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.
The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks.