One should use common words to say uncommon things

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Each day is a little life.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.