The Wise Man Is Astonished By Anything.

Most Often People Seek In Life Occasions For Persisting In Their Opinions Rather Than For Educating Themselves.

Of Some Forty Families I Have Been Able To Observe, I Know Hardly Four In Which The Parents Do Not Act In Such A Way That Nothing Would Be More Desirable For The Child Than To Escape Their Influence.

Everything Has Been Said Before, But Since Nobody Listens We Have To Keep Going Back And Beginning All Over Again.

The Most Decisive Actions Of Life Are Most Often Unconsidered Actions.

It Is Unthinkable For A Frenchman To Arrive At Middle Age Without Having Syphilis And The Cross Of The Legion Of Honor.