There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.