When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Speech happens to not be his language.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
