He who does not live in some degree for others hardly lives for himself.
We have nothing to fear but fear itself
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.
I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.
Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.
The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.
We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable ac...
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
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...
A wise man sees as much as he ought not as much as he can.
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.
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?
A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.
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...
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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,...
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...