No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.