Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle!" He added with a pause: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes