A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.