The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
The world will be saved by one or two people.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.