The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
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...
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself and not by borrowing.
A wise man sees as much as he ought not as much as he can.
There are defeats more triumphant than victories.
I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in his, and that having seized his whole will, brought it back with equal concurren...
There is nothing more notable in than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself.
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
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
The thing I fear most is fear.
What hits you affects you and wakes you up more then what pleases you.
Were our pupil's disposition so bizarre that he would rather hear a tall story than the account of a great voyage or a wise discussion; that at the sound of a drum calling the youthful ardour of his c...
The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.