I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain ov...
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and di...
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.