Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them.

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.