Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Voltaire Quotes
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I have only made but one prayer in my life: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it.
