But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.