Fortune favors the audacious.
Fools are without number.
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
Concealed talent brings no reputation.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
No one respects a talent that is concealed.
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.