reflection Quotes

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

The march of the human mind is slow.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.