I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.
The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and im...
For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the str...
Love is a great poet its resources are inexhaustible but if the end it has in view is not obtained it feels weary and remains silent.
The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
Marriage is the tomb of love.
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.
Be the flame, not the moth.
As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.
lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.
In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.