It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.
Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?
We should tend our freedom wisely.
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered "Somebody else's."
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
Women are not entirely wrong when they reject the moral rules proclaimed in society, since it is we men alone who have made them.
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles...
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.
I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by t...
There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.
As concerning marriage, besides that it is a covenant, the entrance into which only is free, but the continuance in it forced and compulsory, having another dependence than that of our own free will,...
We have nothing to fear but fear itself