| No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give. |
| Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. |
| Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. |
| To understand all is to forgive all. |
| He who survives will see the outcome. |
| Life is an onion and one peels it crying. |
| Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics. |
| When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach. |
| There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. |
| He is rich who owes nothing. |
| He that does not ask will never get a bargain. |
| Everyone thinks his own burden heavy. |
| If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength. |
| Ready money works great cures. |
| One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. |
| What was hard to endure is sweet to recall. |
| We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. |
| We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it. |
| Wait until it is night before saying that is has been a fine day. |
| Set a thief to catch a thief. |
| Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want. |
| There is no flying without wings. |
| When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it. |
| A father is a banker provided by nature. |
| With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle. |
| A white wall is the fool's paper. |
| Travellers from afar can lie with impunity. |
| Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks. (tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse) |
