The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possib…

Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to s…

Usez, n'abusez point; le sage ainsi l'ordonne. Je fuis egalement Epictete et Petrone. L'abstinence ou l'exces ne fit jamais d'heureux.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

The more exquisite any good is, of which a small specimen is afforded us, the sharper is the evil, allied to it; and few exceptions are found to this uniform l…