Quotes from Candy Wrapers

My friend Olaya got me hooked on these chocolate Christmas candies which are awesome, and they look like this:

They are also wrapped in a paper with a quote, here are some of my favorites (I've eaten a couple... a few... here and there)

S'irriter d'un reproche, c'est reconnaître qu'on l'a mérité

To be irritated by criticism is to recognize that we deserved it

- Tacite

Qui s'excuse s'accuse

He who excuses himself accuses himself

-Stendhal

Parole. Si l'on ne disait que des choses utiles, il se ferait un grand silence dans le monde.

I promise, if everyone only said useful things, the world would become very quiet.
-Alvare Sanchez de Moncades

Une idée qui n'est pas dangereuse ne mérite pas d'être appelée une idée.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworth of being called an idea at all.
-Oscar Wilde

Qui parle sème : qui écoute récolte

He who speaks sows; he who listens harvests
- Pythagorean

Les vrais gourmands lisent en remuant les lèvres pour déguster les mots.

Real gourmets read with moving lips to better sense the words.
- Yvan Audouard