"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened."
"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."
"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."
"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
"Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep."
"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly."
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
"Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee."
"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."
"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."
"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."
"I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of."
"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."
"Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations."
"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it."
"Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness."
"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
"One may be humble out of pride."
"'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures."
"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
"My trade and art is to live."
