“Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.”

How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

As many opinions as there are men; each a law to himself.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don’t get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

am human: nothing human is alien to me.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

Their silence is enough praise.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

The less my hope, the hotter my love.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

Fortune helps the brave.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Charity begins at home.

You can’t know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.

They say that it is the practiced liar who can deceive. But so often the practiced and chronic liar deceives only himself; it is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.