Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.