There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?
We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health.
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own.
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use we make of them a man may live long yet live very little.
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;
We are all of us richer than we think we are.
All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men.
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.