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• A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
  -- Jean Paul Richte...
• Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. -- Jean Paul Richte
• In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our characte
  he multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual....
• The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
  -- Jean-Paul Sartre...
• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
  -- Jean Paul Richte...
• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery
• Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the read the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)...
• Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
  Jean Paul Richte...